wmail command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

wmail: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wmail: command not found

Solutions to wmail: command not found

How To Fix wmail: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wmail is provided by wmail package.

wmail is:

wmail is a Window Maker docklet watching your inbox, which is either a ordinary mbox or a directory conforming to qmail’s Maildir format. It provides a nice little GUI displaying some useful pieces of information about your inbox (as many other nice wm-apps doing nearly the same thing…). Per default it uses the $MAIL environment-variable to locate the inbox you are using, other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are not supported - use a tool like fetchmail to retrieve POP- or IMAP-based mail.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install wmail

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install wmail.

sudo apt -y install wmail

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install wmail

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wmail command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.